Some people are reporting that changing the Everyone setting to Read & Write is also necessary for Origin to successfully access the external drive. Make sure your user account has Read & Write access. At the bottom is the Sharing & Permissions window. If you are still having issues with the drive not being recognised in Origin, check the permissions for the external drive - Click on the mounted drive and press CMD and i to bring up the info window. (Thanks to these instructions in a thread in the Origin forum) If not, repeat steps 1 to 3 and you should see the contents of your external in the window. You should get a Gatekeeper message popping up asking for Origin to have permission to access files on a removable volume. The window will disappear and reappear again but you may not see your external.up from an external hard drive, like an iPod onto which you've installed Mac OS. For example, my external is called Backup and shows Backup when plugged in in Finder, so the file path is /Volumes/Backup. In Origin > Installs & Saves > Game Library Location click on Change Folder In the left side click on Computer then double click on the /. Disk Utility can't fix the disk it's on (except for permissions repairs. In the field at the bottom, where it says Directory, type in /Volumes/ then hit Enter.You should see four folders in the right now - Applications, Library, System, Users.

In the left side click on Computer then double click on the '/' that appears next to a picture of your hard drive in the right side.In Origin > Installs & Saves > Game Library Location click on Change Folder.

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